Some jobs are becoming more and more in demand and Ikea chair is causing problems

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The World Economic Forum has published an exciting forecast regarding the global job market. According to this, 83 million jobs are to be cut worldwide by 2027 and only 69 million new jobs will be created. That would correspond to a net loss of 14 million jobs. This is the conclusion of the “Future of Jobs” report of the World Economic Forum. According to the report, around 26 million jobs will be lost by 2027 in accounting and administration alone. The positions of secretaries, ticket sellers and cashiers are also affected. These tasks are increasingly being taken over by AI and automation technologies.

Labor market researchers, on the other hand, predict good prospects for data analysts, machine learning specialists and cyber security experts. The World Economic Forum expects demand for these jobs to increase by more than 30 percent in the next few years.

What makes our work on the PC easier? That’s right, a comfortable office chair. A German programmer had also bought one of these, and then he kept having problems with his monitor. For weeks, Felix Häcker’s PC monitor went black for a few seconds after it flickered on briefly. Hacker tried everything possible to fix the problem – but to no avail.

In an Internet forum post he then read that it could have something to do with his Ikea office chair named Markus. And indeed, that’s how it was. Markus has an extra-high backrest whose plastic fabric cover is statically charged and thus causes the screen to flicker when the sitter stands up or moves forward. What helps against this: to build a grounding.

If anyone knows what AI can do, it’s Geoffrey Hinton. This is already clear from his nickname, which is “Godfather of AI”. As early as 1986, Hinton laid the foundations for neural networks on which all modern AI is based today. Meanwhile, Hinton is extremely critical of AI technology. As he revealed in an interview with Reuters, he believes that the danger posed to humanity is greater than the threat posed by climate change.

Hinton’s prognosis: AI could become more intelligent than humans and take control of the planet. When it comes to climate change, we know at least in theory how to stop it. With AI, that’s not clear at all. Hinton now sees politics as a duty.

The Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main dealt with a curious case. A man sued his friend there because he had gambled away his money in the crypto world. Accordingly, the accused invested his friend’s money in various cryptocurrencies at his request. However, he gambled away when switching between Bitcoin and Ethereum. His friend therefore claimed the lost profit in court.

The district court in Darmstadt had largely upheld the lawsuit. The higher regional court saw the case differently. In its verdict, it rated the investment of the money as a “friendship service”. Switching back and forth between the cryptocurrencies did not conflict with the plaintiff’s declared will. The judgment of the Higher Regional Court is not yet final.

That sounds promising: Google and Samsung want to fix one of the most annoying Android behaviors. The two companies are working together so that background services are not simply killed under Android 14 or One UI 6. Until now, this has meant that basic functions such as sending notifications or even the alarm clock app do not work as they should.

The new rules will soon become part of the Google Play Store guidelines. According to Google, apps that address Android 14 must comply with the new policy from August 31, 2023. App developers then have around a year to adapt their programs accordingly. Samsung promised to end its own additional battery-saving measures in the course of announcing the guidelines. It remains to be hoped that other manufacturers will follow suit in the near future.

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